This week, on KCPT we follow up on the Frontline series by examining how concussions are impacting middle and high school football players in Kansas City.

“We have to stop looking at youth sports and thinking these kids are just miniature professionals, because they are not. They’re just kids.”

Doug Abrams, is a professor of law at the University of Missouri and an expert on concussions in youth sports. He thinks its only a matter of time before concussion based lawsuits are filed at the high school level, “it’s a ticking-time bomb,” he says.

Abrams appears in an-depth report Friday at 7:30 pm on KCPT’s Kansas City Week in Review program that localizes the Frontline investigation. KCPT has formed a unique reporting partnership with KCTV5 to tackle the issue.

Stacey Cameron at the Kansas City CBS affiliate has done some of the the metro’s most extensive reporting on the concussion issue and was freed from his daily responsibilities to work with KCPT along with KCTV5 videographer Courtney Hulsey to conduct original reporting around the Frontline series.

We hear from bereaved parents who’ve lost their children to football injuries and examine whether regulations governing school sports in Kansas and Missouri do enough to protect young athletes.

Friday at 7:30 pm on KCPT’s primetime public affairs program Kansas City Week in Review.